... ambition was a hotel for the tourists, there was a wide divergence of ideals. The method of Katharine Pley dell-Bouverie is temperate and deliberate she advances step by step as she works out the fight for the valley. She has a strong sense of artistic values ...

... fair criminal called Naida, who with her other accomplishments combines that of skill on the violin, and you have crime tempered (slightlyi by humane art. Need less to say, the police have a look in, and here is a very pretty piece of sensation, which ...

... invalid as prescribing a dose of your indigestion medicine. These clinical niceties throw light on Mervyn's outbursts of temper. Eve was wistful and womanly but the lukewarm soup and tea made with out boiling water do not appear to have been entirely ...

... confronted a quite naturally selfish and pleasure-loving girl with a morbid young man of intensity, passion, and difficult temper. Physical beauty and great charm of manner condone her selfishness, and his rough gaucherie is balanced by unusual depths ...

... The two men are not more distinguished and, on the whole, the palm for grip of character must be given to Deirdre's bad-tempered husband. However, readers will doubtless bo found to unravel sympathetically the ill-assorted couples. ...

... NORA PAYS. By Lucille Van Slyke. (Methuen 7s. 6d.) 1NCUXA LAIS. tsy L.UCILLE VAN SLYKE. (Methuen 7s. 6d.) Nora paid for her temper, for running away from her husband and babies, and for her ambitious dash at a Fifth Avenue [Continued overleaf Continued ...

... The Sword. By C. A. Benton. [Chapman and Hall.) It would be unwise to test the temper of The Sword too severely. On the surface it is a lightly written and easily read account of some people, Bohemian and otherwise, who mean well and want to be happy ...

... Christ Church, the racial tendencies of the Scot triumphed. The view of the two statesmen, each curiously detached from the temper of the nation whose destinies they swayed, is presented with admirable freshness and power. Opposition has not blinded the ...

... study in temperament. One feels that it degenerates sometimes, both on the part of Verona and her father, into a study in temper. Verona was a very selfish and tiresome little girl, who had a vocation and saw visions, and was set on being a nun and her ...

... and horrid, with all the proper trappings. With Alexis Smith, Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet. i remember mama. A sweet-tempered, human story of a Norwegian family in the San hrancisco of the early i goo's, told in the form of a memoir by the eldest ...

... Whethe he is discussing Mr. Shaw or Mr. Sid Field whether he is in Stratford or Shaftesbur; Avenue, he admirably keeps his temper ant his reader's close attention. J. C. TREWIN ...

... but his generous act towards a rival was turned by. that rival, Vendome, to his dishonour, and he lost Teanne for ever. The temper of the time is cunningly suggested, anil the side-lights 011 the character of Catherine de' Medici have been justly touched ...